Hunter Walker

AUGUST 8, 2023

Satya and I were having lunch (yummy Chinese food) with our LPAC and the conversation turned to generally “how much more did venture portfolios have to fall before they found their true current value?” Restructures, Down Rounds, and Pay to Plays. Whatever gets reported is just the tip of the iceberg.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Do certain types of posts generate more likes, comments, shares, leads, and conversions than others? To get quick wins, the likelihood is you’re going to have to pay to play. However, it’s important to pay and play wisely. Does posting more make a difference to engagement or follower numbers? image source ).

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 8, 2024

In our conversation, Alan delves into the core principles of Lean Marketing and how it can transform the way businesses connect with their audience in today’s saturated landscape. At what point do those tools start making money off of that control and basically everything becomes pay to play.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Michelle Obama, the greatest advocate of kids playing sports in her role for Aspen Project Play, would be a huge inspiration to meet. To talk about the outdated pay-to-play system in sports in the U.S. Who do you invite and why? for example. I would also invite the Wonder Woman actress Gal Gadot.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

That’s how it feels when your hot deal from two years ago winds up running low on cash and gets into a pay-to-play round that wipes out the cap table. Meanwhile, you may have felt like your form—the things you were doing to throw a pitch—was the same as it was before—and perhaps even better. But I thought I was good!?”

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

They know there’s pay-to-play stuff. It’s about injecting yourself into the conversation. It’s about trying to create a conversation yourself. But it generates greater reward when your brand has created a conversation that puts you front of mind for months to come. They know there are affiliate links.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Seeing their own newsletter — and the conversations and leads that it generates — resonates instantly that you are delivering a valuable service. In fact, for many clients, it could be your “foot in the door” on top of which you sell other less concrete services like SEO.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 11, 2020

If your nonprofit doesn’t come up in potential donors’ research or conversations, you aren’t likely to see their money hit your organization’s bank account. These “pay to play” donors can be tempting, but they might take you away from working toward your nonprofit’s vision.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 23, 2019

So, pay to play is definitely here. When you understand the tactics that are working, and how people are moving throughout their customer journey from start to finish, then you can tailor your content further to encourage others to take that same path to conversion. Those are my five insights for 2020.

Small Business 79

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Much of it is very short term focused and, like a giant tractor beam, draws the conversation into a very short time horizon (as in days or weeks). I’ve seen every imaginable type of liquidation preference structure, pay-to-play dynamic, preferred return, ratchet, share/option bonus, option repricing, and carveout.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 19, 2021

We’ll look at how to thrive with organic content and how to extend your reach with pay-to-play. If you want to increase traffic, look at actions such as clicks, referral traffic, and conversions. Facebook’s algorithm is geared towards showing users conversations from the groups they’re in. Research the competition.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 8, 2020

They don’t have peers to talk to where it’s safe to have conversations around finance or people. Now it’s wrapped around the pay-to-play side of it. It’s that agency owners are inherently kind of feel like they’re on an island by themselves. They don’t know who to ask about best practices.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 30, 2015

Generate enough traffic and that content will drive a steady uptick in conversions and a return on your marketing budgetary spend. Social media is becoming an increasingly pay-to-play environment, especially on Facebook. See which works best for your brand, which results in the highest upticks in traffic and conversions.

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Scott Edward Walker

JULY 7, 2011

Redemption Rights What Are Redemption Rights? A redemption right is another feature of preferred stock and permits the investors to require the company to repurchase their shares after a specified period of time; it is, in effect, a “put” right – that is, the investors may elect to put their shares back to the company.

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Scott Edward Walker

JULY 27, 2011

Introduction For the past few months, I’ve been discussing the rights of VC investors in connection with preferred stock financings, including the following: liquidation preferences anti-dilution provisions dividends Board control protective provisions drag-along provisions pay-to-play and pull-up provisions conversion rights redemption rights All (..)

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

.   This is perceived by some investors as a way to assure that the founders are in the game for the long run. ·       Conversion provisions allowing preferred to convert to common if they choose or upon the closing of an IPO at a specified price.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Although it does seem that Facebook is making businesses pay to play, there are still ways that SMBs can get their content seen by their respective audiences without having to rely solely on boosted posts. The Takeaway: The new Facebook Page Layout helps SMBs encourage more interaction from their audiences.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 30, 2023

Key Takeaway: Finding a way to integrate fun and play at work is a powerful asset that benefits the employees and the company itself. [08:53] 13:28] Technology is really running our lives now, how do you sort of insert play into that conversation? [15:59] It pays to Play: How Play Improves Business Culture.

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Scott Edward Walker

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

The Investors’ Right to Walk VC Term Sheets Are Non-Binding.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Link building is also I think on a local basis, I think it’s a confusing conversation to have around creating links between pages and organizations. John Jantsch: At what point does this all become pay to play? Do I ever think it will be a pure pay to play scenario? Neil Crist: Absolutely. Absolutely.

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SEO Vertical Non-Compete Search 55

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2020

We spent time talking about why “pay-to-play” deals are back on the table and why these deals happen. My Thoughts on the Current Market: on 20-Minute VC was originally published in Both Sides of the Table on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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